Please join the Harriman Institute, the Columbia Water Center, and the Central Asian Students Association of Columbia University for an event devoted to water issues in Central Asia, including the Aral Sea and how the politics of trans-boundary waters effect Central Asian economies. Speakers will include the Director of the Columbia Water Center Upmanu Lall, and guest speaker Shuhrat Muradov, Professor in Hydrology and Ecology, and a Chair of the Department of Environmental Protection and Ecology at Karshi Engineering-Economic Institute, Uzbekistan. Upmanu Lall is Director at the Columbia Water Center as well as Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Upmanu Lall has 33 years of experience as a hydrologist, during which he has developed expertise in statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems and water resource systems planning and management. He has pioneered statistical methods and their application to the prediction of hydrologic and climate conditions, and advanced tools for decision analysis and risk management. His research areas include hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; and water technologies for developing countries. Shukhrat Muradov is Professor of Hydrology and Ecology, and a Chair of the Department of Environmental Protection and Ecology at Karshi Engineering-Economic Institute, Uzbekistan. Muradov is an international expert in water resources management (hydrology) and environmental protection issues in Central Asia and CIS, with research interests in ecology, efficient usage and protection of water resources, ecological law, air pollution protection technology, ecological monitoring and applied ecology.

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